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The philosophy of social science : new perspectives / Garry Potter.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: London : New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2017Edition: Second EditionDescription: xii, 285 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138998391 (hardback)
  • 9781138998407 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 300.1 23
LOC classification:
  • H61 .P618 1999
Contents:
1st edition preface -- 2nd edition preface -- The importance of science and the importance of understanding what science is rationalism and empiricism : science's weak foundations -- Positivism and its problems : seeing is not all there is to believing -- Explanations of social scientific understanding and social scientific understandings of natural scientific explanations -- Hermeneutics and science : "the linguistic turn" -- Feminism and science : a woman's place is the more objective space -- Postmodernism : if you say there are no right or wrong answers and i say you're wrong, am i right : or wrong? -- Islam and science : the stars on a common celestial globe -- Pragmatism and neo-pragmatism : foundations of anti-foundationalism -- Hyperreality and critical realism, simulacra and social science -- Terminology glossary.
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L Maasai Mara University Library -Main Campus H61.15.P68 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 17027247

Revised edition of the author's The philosophy of social science.

1st edition preface -- 2nd edition preface -- The importance of science and the importance of understanding what science is rationalism and empiricism : science's weak foundations -- Positivism and its problems : seeing is not all there is to believing -- Explanations of social scientific understanding and social scientific understandings of natural scientific explanations -- Hermeneutics and science : "the linguistic turn" -- Feminism and science : a woman's place is the more objective space -- Postmodernism : if you say there are no right or wrong answers and i say you're wrong, am i right : or wrong? -- Islam and science : the stars on a common celestial globe -- Pragmatism and neo-pragmatism : foundations of anti-foundationalism -- Hyperreality and critical realism, simulacra and social science -- Terminology glossary.

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